While walking across the quad with your friend Dan, you run into an old girlfriend, Wendy. Only seconds after being introduced to Dan, Wendy says to him, “So, Stan, what's your major?” Noticing that Dan appears agitated about his name being messed up, you explain, “Hey, Dan, information is usually ____ encoded into short-term memory, and this kind of error is common.”?

a. ?visually
b. ?semantically
c. ?procedurally
d. ?acoustically


ANSWER:
d

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